Educational Media Services
Media Collection

The EMS media collection contains several thousand items that can be checked out and used by faculty, staff, students and town patrons, and Portland campus patrons. Our media collection is completely cataloged with Library of Congress call numbers, and, like the rest of the Linfield Libraries Collection, it is all included in WildCat, our online catalog. The media collection also circulates to other libraries via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Summit, (the Orbis Cascade Alliance catalog).

Formats Available

Formats available in the EMS include:

• LP recordings (music and spoken word)
• Compact Discs (music and spoken word)
• Videos (VHS format)
• Audiocassettes
• Computer files (CD-ROM and floppy discs)
• Multi-Media (CD-ROM)
• DVD discs
• Films, Filmstrips, Slides, Kits, Games

Reserving Media for Class

Faculty (McMinnville, Portland or Adult Degree Program) can reserve media materials for use in their classes. It is advisable for faculty to plan ahead and reserve all the media materials they will want to use in a semester because materials also circulate to other libraries via ILL and Summit. Media materials can then be pulled from the shelves and held on a reserve shelf, where they are not available for off-campus borrowing.

Students can also check out materials for class projects, and, while we will not hold an item for a student over one week, we can place holds or recalls on an item to retrieve it for their use.